Looking to buy your 2025 garden seeds? Consider these eight favorites of PennLive's long-time garden writer, George Weigel.

The catalog promises newly added varieties, too. The Texas-based seed company is one of the best you’ll find for watermelons. Alongside traditional vegetable, herb, and flower offerings ...

If you’re new to hydroponics, you might be wondering what hydroponic plants to grow in your new garden. Do you know how that red, ripe-looking tomato in your grocery store came to be? Well, first it ...

Master Gardener A current AARP article calls them “wish books,” but seed catalogs can be a source of disappointment if you don’t know what you are  doing when you succumb to their ...

Shortly after it opened in 1974, the Andersen Horticultural Library began collecting seed catalogs. “The mission was given to us by founder Gov. Elmer Andersen,” said Allen. “He wanted this ...

It’s seed catalog season again — the most glorious time of the year! Well, perhaps not the most glorious. More often than not ...

Our MOTHER EARTH NEWS Seed and Plant Finder lets you quickly search the online catalogs of more than 500 ... name inside quotation marks for the best search results.) You can also search for ...

With the weather we’ve had lately, seed and plant catalogs provide a welcome escape for us to ponder future spring and summer plantings. It’s fun and challenging to try new vegetable varieties ...

By January, seed and plant catalogs arrive at your mailbox (or email ... The trick is having some basic knowledge about your location to help you choose the best plants.

My favorite seed catalogs are from companies that specialize ... I have found it’s best to plant basil indoors in late May to plant outdoors in late June after the soil has warmed up.